Mr. Belin. After you were graduated from the Dallas Police Academy, did you right away become a motorcycle policeman or were you first a patrolman or what did you do?
Mr. Baker. No, sir; at first I was a patrolman and I spent some 23 months in radio patrol division. And then I volunteered solo division.
Mr. Belin. When you were in this radio car, was this a patrol car where two men would be——
Mr. Baker. That is right, sir.
Mr. Belin. And have you been a motorcycle policeman then, say, for the last 7 or 8 years?
Mr. Baker. Yes, sir; that is pretty close to it.
(At this point, Representative Ford left the hearing room.)
Mr. Belin. By the way, you use the word solo; generally do people in police cars ride in pairs during the daytime or solos or what?
Mr. Baker. If you are talking about the squad cars at the time that I worked in the radio patrol division, most of them were two-men squads.
Mr. Belin. Were there some one-man squads, too?